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- <title>
- India--Geography
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- <article><source>CIA Factbook</source><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: India
- Geography</hdr><body>
- <p>Location: South Asia, bordering the Arabian Sea and the Bay of
- Bengal, between Bangladesh and Pakistan
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Area:</l>
- <l> total area: 3,287,590 km2</l>
- <l> land area: 2,973,190 km2</l>
- <l> comparative area: slightly more than one-third the size of
- the US</l>
- </list>
- <p>Land boundaries: total 14,103 km, Bangladesh 4,053 km, Bhutan 605
- km, Burma 1,463 km, China 3,380 km, Nepal 1,690 km, Pakistan 2,912 km
- </p>
- <p>Coastline: 7,000 km
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Maritime claims:</l>
- <l> contiguous zone: 24 nm</l>
- <l> continental shelf: 200 nm or the edge of continental
- margin</l>
- <l> exclusive economic zone: 200 nm</l>
- <l> territorial sea: 12 nm</l>
- </list>
- <p>International disputes: boundaries with Bangladesh and China;
- status of Kashmir with Pakistan; water-sharing problems with
- downstream riparians, Bangladesh over the Ganges and Pakistan over
- the Indus
- </p>
- <p>Climate: varies from tropical monsoon in south to temperate in
- north
- </p>
- <p>Terrain: upland plain (Deccan Plateau) in south, flat to rolling
- plain along the Ganges, deserts in west, Himalayas in north
- </p>
- <p>Natural resources: coal (fourth-largest reserves in the world),
- iron ore, manganese, mica, bauxite, titanium ore, chromite, natural
- gas, diamonds, petroleum, limestone
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Land use:</l>
- <l> arable land: 55%</l>
- <l> permanent crops: 1%</l>
- <l> meadows and pastures: 4%</l>
- <l> forest and woodland: 23%</l>
- <l> other: 17%</l>
- </list>
- <p>Irrigated land: 430,390 km2 (1989)
- </p>
- <p>Environment: droughts, flash floods, severe thunderstorms common;
- deforestation; soil erosion; overgrazing; air and water pollution;
- desertification
- </p>
- <p>Note: dominates South Asian subcontinent; near important Indian
- Ocean trade routes
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